claunch omar bin to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture want to fix world poverty then tax the rich in just a moment i'll tell you about a shocking new report that shows how good the global oligarchy and how about the rest of us have and then i'll ask my politics panel just one put our billionaires and our economy anyway also with global temperatures expected to increase between five and ten degrees mankind could be facing extinction so will conservatives heed president obama's call on climate change and commit the united states to being a leader in the coming green energy revolution or will they sit on their hands as

the waters rise and later republicans and gun nuts why you think that the second amendment means the government can't place any restrictions on guns at all but there's a hidden history of the second amendment that you probably don't know about sure that we deliver it later in the show. you need to know this in a second inaugural speech yesterday president obama said these simple words speak directly to the major problem facing america today wealth inequality. we do not believe that in this country freedom is reserved for the lucky or happiness for the few. unfortunately that's the case in america today as nearly fifty million of us live in poverty and just four hundred of us has us more wealth than half the rest of the nation more than one hundred fifty million people combined it's also the

case around the world and this global wealth inequality is making it harder and harder to eradicate poverty according to a new oxfam report prepared for the davos world economic forum if you take just last year's profits of the world's one hundred wealthiest people alone and add them up you would have enough money to end poverty around the planet in two thousand and twelve the richest one hundred billionaires netted two hundred forty billion dollars in income that's enough to end world poverty not just once not just twice not just three times but four times over again the money that was just made by a hundred people in chess last year could end poverty for the entire world four times over as oxfam's chief executive barbara stocking said in a world where even basic resources such as land and water are increasingly scarce we cannot afford to concentrate assets in the hands of a few and leave the many to struggle over what's left now here in america we can't

tell other nations how they should treat their billionaires but we can start by setting an example of our own for the good of society and for those who are the victims of unfettered corporate capitalism i believe we must bring back the upper income tax rates that actually sustain a healthy middle class during the republican presidency of dwight eisenhower that's a ninety one percent marginal income to the tax rate on the top if you take immediate action today to wipe out poverty and get consumer demand back in our economy by rolling back the reagan tax cuts for billionaires so any income over nine hundred ninety nine million dollars actually over a one million dollars is taxed at ninety one percent that way it can be funneled back through our. me rather than just sit in mitt romney swiss bank account president obama said happiness shouldn't be reserved for the few well then let's do something about it let's have a serious discussion about redistribution of wealth joining me now for

a big picture of politics panelist chris allman conservative commentator and activist richard follower progressive strategist and host of the richard fowler show and neil munro white house correspondent over at the daily caller so chris let me just lay it out chris you look like you are you want to grab this one what good are billionaires anyway oh well they're not really good for anything other than creating jobs so that other people can get wealthy i mean put away your magic wand you can't possibly believe this he was in her words were spent one trillion dollars last year on wealth redistribution programs for means tested not social security not medicare one trillion dollars here say until hundred forty million dollars rob to billion but we spent one trillion i mean come on so then what all how many more million people are going to be out of jobs and in poverty under your plan more than half of the people living on planet earth right now live on less than two dollars a day so you know that's it doesn't take

a lot of money to end world we're talking about a really genuine grinding desperate people dying in poverty and yet that two hundred forty billion dollars would do the work trillion dollars the united states in one year and you think two hundred forty billion dollars is going to me it's just ludicrous i mean you couldn't rob it amy if you can rob the rich and unemployed a lot more people and have more people in poverty and that's what's going to happen with your plan richard but the question here what's wrong with dwight eisenhower in the republican i mean i think the question here tom is that these people who are so rich they continue to get richer every year that get the wealth gap increased in this country and yet still we haven't seen the jobs where the jobs of these people are created because i've missed them you know what it will be and this is the barack obama administration where unemployment is increasing along with the death and the deficit that's nowhere. about it i got a compromise deal let's not snatch all the money from the rich folks snatch it from the rich foundations like oh i dunno gail harvard forward they've got too much money you could take some of that too and redistribute what percent if you want you

guys you nice progress if you want ten percent of it fifteen percent for the big one here just a very simple question i mean genuinely i genuinely meant that if we had the only three decades in the two hundred thirty year history of this country and we had sustained g.d.p. growth above three point two percent we're and i don't think it's any coincidence that all the three decades of the top income tax rate was ninety one percent it was the fifty's the sixty's in the seventy's maybe a relation to that but i can saw that and let's not want to go back to what about good enough for dwight eisenhower richard nixon it's good enough for me but the problem if you take all that money there would be no money the following year to take so you're giving everybody around the world. and what is not true at all no more thought about what if you're let's talk about economics here what we know about economics is something called money multipliers and things i think sometimes republicans forget about it you would have dollar into the economy that creates four dollars on the out there because my one dollar goes to pay for something the

person who gets that money they pay somebody and that person pays somebody and that person pays the money to create the money it's able to let you know what i'm the person who doesn't know what to do you know when the government and what economic theory also tells you that when the government decides to spend money it's actually cheaper for the government to spend money than for people that's for for for rich people who want to because they can put it without a marginal propensity to save money to buy the stuff but you know even even more important than that is that i'm not suggesting that the government should tax people in order to spend that money what you know because taxes do two things one is they generate revenue the other is they change behavior if you look at the wealth of wealthy people in the fifty's sixty's and seventy's what you see is that very rarely did they take over a million dollars a year other businesses instead they paid their employees well so you had up with the middle class that's well paid and that's generating demand in the. chris what's not to like about eisenhower nixon seventy one percent tax rate what's that well look at what's happening in france now with the seventy five percent tax rate gets higher so it's legal and you know roger it star kobe has now we are one cranky

billionaire and now there's an accident to the lot and you know what you take ninety one percent and those people start along the line there's no money to do that in america so that's something the poor people in france have a longer life expectancy to be willfully you can't you don't have the power to matter how nice and noble or progress and you are you actually look at can't you know they're about america i want to go but there are a bunch of them is that we want to go over and over again it's very clear with the american people are the american people that what the president there with progress as we saw that in that we saw the november's election they rejected paul ryan on face they rejected other tea party maniacs like alan west and they take their ideals of how we saw this country out of watching you know what richard a rejection is reagan's forty nine to one that was a rejection of his opponent and a victory obama won in iowa state obama is my only the second to reject in this country is the way to say he chris was clearly the whole drama and eisenhower were the only two presidents in the last hundred years to win the presidency back to

back with fifty one percent they were the only who won i sit here talking like it's ninety nine percent of americans are exactly who i'm sure you would i don't know if they were they in fact you guys have opened this up perfectly to segue into the president's inaugural address first here's what ronald reagan said about government in his inaugural address. the government is not the solution to our problem government is the problem. from time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by show. that government by an elite group is superior to government for by. and of the people ok now here's obama talking about a week. together we determined that a modern economy requires railroads and highways to speed travel and commerce schools and colleges to train our workers. together we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play

. together we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from wife's worst hazards and misfortune preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action. for the american people could no more meet the demands of today's world by acting alone than american soldiers could have met the forces of fascism or communism with muskets and malicious republicans knew what those words meant here was charles krauthammer going nuts this was really obama. and i think what's most interesting is that obama basically is declaring the end of reaganism in the speech remember he once said that ronald reagan was historically consequential in a way that bill clinton was not. what obama is that obama had changed the.

course of the country in one thousand nine hundred eighty one it is you know you will address where the two minutes reagan had to clear the government is not the solution government is the problem today's inaugural address was a rebuke to that entire idea this speech today was an ode to big government it was so and by the way i agree with krauthammer that. i never thought i'd say that so as president obama going to end the reagan revolution because his plan is fundamentally selfish he thinks we means that government is going to run the lives for everybody else he left out families and kompany individuals from his. role and i think i really think that. but i think that with the direction of what we need the president to consider we are you know all those present managed to bump up on employment while spending six trillion dollars and i think he's going to run a daycare center. on employment go down with the president so

let's talk about the. fact is that unemployment go down like i said the american people this is what they voted for they voted for four more years of policies that work on struggling on middle class and are working class and that's the president talked about whether you like it or not do you think that this might be the end of the reagan era and the beginning of you know this flip back to something more like the f.d.r. eisenhower era. among the people or among president obama in america in american political discourse absolutely not so you think that the reagan revolution is going to remain intact. i think the freedom agenda is going to remain intact and that the american people are going to wake up and say you know what actually government is part of the problem takes away our freedom. very nice example of social security he's going to take care of your old age but he's going to run obamacare and if you want obamacare the same way he runs

everything else there won't be the money you stole the speech was a gigantic shriek of. economy going down the tubes and he's going to talk about rights for gays and he's going to talk about climate change we will pick up on that conversation in fact with that right after this more with our with our big picture politics. technology innovation. developments. the first submission of free accreditation three times for charges three arrangements three. three stooges three. old free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media. tom.

there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year. with aids this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about it there were really good public health campaigns that people were really focused on this problem you certainly should be able to hold a lot less h.l.v. a lot less human suffering.

welcome back to the big picture politics panel joining me chris solomon conservative commentator and activist richard follower progress strategist nose to the richard collar show and neil munro white house correspondent at the daily caller let's talk climate change here's what the president had to say on tuesday. we will respond to the threat of climate change knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms the path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult but america cannot resist this transition we must lead it. we cannot see other

nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries we must claim its promise is both a carrot stick here the carrot is a whole new economy the stick is the permian extinction or two hundred fifty million years ago raising the temperature of the planet five degrees through volcanic activity caused the methane hydrate crystals in the oceans to turn to sort of and raise the planet by another five degrees that ten degree increase in temperature killed off ninety five percent of all life on the planet richard do you think that the president's going to be successful in doing anything about this oh i do think you plan to makes us feel i think what is number one problem going to be first of all those who don't believe in science that think there is no such thing as global warming even though we have hurricane katrina superstorm sandy and go on and on and on about a laundry list of weather that we haven't even in d.c. last week it was seventy degrees outside in the middle of winter all part of global warming all part of real climate change happening in this country the president

acknowledged it and now it's time for republicans to do the same after they acknowledge that we've got to find a way to fix it one way to start is by possibly ratifying kyoto we can go on and on about what we can do to cap carbon the decade old i mean exactly now is that was back when we were thinking maybe two three degrees and we were looking at you know three hundred eighty parts per million now we're looking at four or five degrees of neal do you do you not believe the climate science you know i do not believe any group and scientists have some evidence for example salivation water is interesting at the same time the progress is you're saying trust us we've messed up the nations we're going to state industry. now left to control the world's climate he has zero public trust in asking for such a while if you. need to figure out how many we're going to tear and we'll come up with zero public trust the american people clearly trust fifty one percent of the trust the president to be our last run in the world's weather joy and you have to get him to actually did it he talked about what. he didn't run on it he did romney he's going to melt your snowman. he was in control for the first two years of the

democratic congress and he never brought anything up this is a talking point to make people like you feel good you know he had no intention of doing anything plus i believe the scientists who said that if we eliminated all carbon emissions we would not be able to stop climate change as you just said the climate sometimes changes that are on its own what we need to do is figure out how we're going to deal with it and i think that we don't have faith that this president knows how do you judge. here there's nothing to do with your dad he's going to may or may not happen you'll notice this president is against the natural gas fracking business which is would use the amount of carbon output in this country normally he wishes he's against that. and that your guess is we are going to be the skies are actually would use in the carbon output faster than the progress is so much in the business our view of the business are these the business guys that want to you know drilling and more the business doesn't want to drill off the coast of florida about but if you want to see if the plan really sort of her

way i mean you know the date how this is i think go ahead we would have always down to is what we saw from the president's speech yesterday was a true real progressive agenda that will move this country forward that's a good voted for and i think that's what he's going to provide now the question is what will happen when john boehner the congress we've already seen the republicans on the debt ceiling debate by extending it for three months the question is will they continue to cave and take their medicine realize that they lost in november and if they don't moderate as a party that they're going to lose and want to. tell you that you almost have a gun to their head they lost they better capitulate and give this president everything he wants that's outrageous we live in a democracy you know where they are how they give the president what he wants only to bring the bill to the floor every time you bring the bill before the bill passes the fact that you don't bring the bills or the floor or you decided there's something about the u.s. or you know i'm not talking about the house of representatives most of the president's policies will pass the house where but if there was a true a real up and down vote the problem is that john boehner doesn't even have a real or how do you want the debt certainly. that doesn't look to the floor how

much money the senate democrats want to spend on climate change we don't know because they haven't had it but i did it for you are you going to even tell us how much they want guys want to see they were being raised build a liberal you dollars the oil they want to we already know but here's here's this you know since we're asking rhetorical questions which president was it who put cap and trade on the table to do away with sulfur dioxide emissions to radically reduce sulfur dioxide emissions and it worked and sulfur dioxide went down which president was that brought that forward it was george herbert walker bush this is a republic cap and trade was just just like obamacare was a heritage foundation proposal and it worked why can't we do that with carbon emissions and conservatives make mistakes too and so for small slice the economy but damn if progress is want to control carbon economy we do and americans are. getting. we know he in the speech he talked about this is going to be a long and hard road yet and he did his best to disguise how long and hard that was

by not talking my gas prices are cylinder american. troops so i'd rather not agree with everything is a lot of that is that the republican the fence not the living room where the cylinder is in cylinder the company the knowns that they took apart the cylinder is the company that the president pumped up with five hundred thirty five million of our money and it's appeared and so on the side of the company the. point is they're talking about us and they're talking about their land and i'm thinking oh my babies that that failed the program can't actually do what they just just one very quick question do you guys don't believe in climate change or you don't believe that this is going to i'm actually going all the time ok but you don't you don't ok it's what you do when you disagree with the i.p.c.c. i'm curious if you think that all of the republicans in the house and i know all the freshman republicans last time i disagreed with them disagree they don't trust and it's a fair question trust why should the white know why should the country. to group of

self interested scientists and political backers demanding to control the world when they have the honor of landing one then said they could listen to billionaires to make billions on oil instead of the self interest of scientists that many don't have seven thousand bucks a year as a nationalist them but this is the vast and the program does want to do with this program millions want to charge in our own whether and yet and that and their response whenever people say show me the evidence trust us no these are americans we're talking about here they want a lot better than a couple of thoughts let's move on to election regain republicans virginia took an outrageous step tuesday to rig that the next state senate elections and actually the entire state elections while the nation was focused on the inauguration republicans passed legislation to redraw draw the state's congressional districts increase many of them are considered safe republican seats currently the virginia state senate is split twenty to twenty between republicans and democrats republicans were only able to sneak this legislation through because one of the democratic state senators was here in washington d.c.

attending the president's inauguration thus giving the republicans a one vote advantage so every general public is reached the same conclusions republicans in pennsylvania florida was gods of michigan ohio but if you can't win an election legitimately rig it chris. well you know what gerrymandering the real problem and i don't think it's limited to republicans in this country i think both republicans and democrats there's always an gerrymandering this was only a vote when one of the democrats wasn't around and nobody said we're going to hold a vote well somehow the other thirty nine people knew to be there and he didn't know to be there well this guy really no i mean i apologize i'd forgotten his name but he's his name is senator marsh is a senator henry marsh is in his seventy's he is an icon of the civil rights movement and he was invited to be part of the president's inauguration for that purpose and so he was gone everybody else stayed home and watched it on t.v. or at least that that's what senator marsh thought but no they called they called into question this was this floozie think exactly thirty nine other people managed

to get the. this is tough hard and you know nobody wants can claim to be innocent of this and neither can democrats who whenever they run into a majority problem to face a judge that force what you invent a new law it's a living constitution and the democratic congress to do this isn't this the same thing as the voter suppression id laws only so they can win an election we're going to visit to the republican to do everything in their power to make sure the voting public is the smallest possible don't want to see minorities vote they don't want to see women vote they want to see seniors vote and they don't want to see latinos vote it's just that simple we've seen them do it in two thousand and twelve and if we think that they're not going to do it in twenty fourteen that we're sadly mistaken republicans are talking about rejiggering how we allocate electoral votes with the big by congressional district because they know they've already mostly legislatures and they already know how the boundaries are going to come out and they will do everything they do well let's let's let's acknowledge this was a brilliant move i mean back in two thousand when the when the u.s. supreme court explicitly said of bush v gore that there is no constitutional individual explicated right to vote for president states the koch brothers and

their buddies got together and said hey you know let's figure out how we can break the electoral vote how do we really like to take control of the traditionally blue swing states at the state level and when redistricting happens when the census of two thousand and ten happens and redistricting happens boom you know i was there in the conspiracy and you know who chaired their president obama and he was the guy who helped the republicans get a majority twenty ten i'm going to write what i think i can see it's only five yes i believe that is right you know i'm not going to defend what they did because you know what their politicians and politicians of both parties do the same thing about it so you don't have suppressing african-american vote absolutely not and i'm offended that you would even suggest that the use of that republican was the one that is the law so not a bad law i'm not sitting here calling no reason why i didn't i didn't qualify didn't you know i'll use it more i think that we're going to morrow i say i want to present to the final question to you is do you support limiting the number of early voting is yes i do and then you are suppressing the vote. well i don't know i'm not

i why does why you did it will be why should you be allowed to vote early why because because sometimes when you don't even know all the facts until the last minute so why should we have a day we live in going to have a mass going to be national holiday to vote absolutely i support that one hundred percent we could agree there i think it should be enough to hold a vote but yeah would only make you want to or if you were agreeing with him on that vote in are and on that. chris allman richard faller neil munro thank you all think it was. crazy alert the neanderthals next door in a story that sounds like something out of a hit movie dressing park a professor at the harvard medical school has announced his plans to reconstruct neanderthal d.n.a. and create in the end it's all baby and have not roamed our planet for thirty three

thousand years professor george church says that his analysis of the neanderthal genetic code from samples of fossilized bones is complete enough to reconstruct that human predecessors d.n.a. the only catch is the church needs to find a woman who would be willing to become the world's first neanderthal baby surrogate mother a neanderthal d.n.a. would be implanted into stem cells which would in turn be implanted into cells from a human embryo that embryo would then be implanted into a surrogate mother so if her suppressor church gets his way the phrase years such a neanderthal could have a very different meaning future. after the break senate republican leader mitch mcconnell whipped up gun nuts in america with an outrageous e-mail to supporters this week that in just a moment will really make the gun nuts head explode by uncovering a secret history behind the second amendment that's been lost for more than two hundred years.

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